Author: Advanced AI Editor
French tech startup Mistral AI has signed a €100m ($110m) multi-year partnership with shipping and logistics company CMA CGM to develop tailored AI solutions for the Marseille-based conglomerate’s operations, Reuters reported. The five-year agreement will explore new AI applications within CMA CGM’s core logistics services and its French media businesses, with a specific focus on enhancing customer service and implementing AI-powered factchecking tools. The deal will contribute to CMA CGM’s AI-related investment, which is projected to reach €500m over the duration of the partnership. Founded in 2023, Mistral AI provides alternatives to solutions offered by leading US companies in the…
DeepSeek is looking to make one of the core components of its AI models more open and accessible to other developers. The Chinese AI startup said it will be sharing technical details about its internal inference engine with the open-source community. Inferencing is one of the many stages of building a large language model (LLM). It involves the trained AI model generating new data, which shows the patterns that the model has learned based on its parameters. DeepSeek said that its internal inference engine and training framework have been instrumental in accelerating the training and deployment of its AI models.…
Alibaba Cloud has bolstered its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for international customers, unveiling a suite of new models, tools and infrastructure upgrades. Announced at the company’s Spring Launch 2025 online event, the new offerings focus on providing scalable AI offerings, particularly in the rapidly evolving field of generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs). “We are launching a series of platform-as-a-service [PaaS] and AI capability updates to meet the growing demand for digital transformation from across the globe,” said Selina Yuan, president of international business at Alibaba Cloud. “These upgrades allow us to deliver even more secure and…
A U.S. chipmaker known for designing and supplying the processors behind some of the world’s most powerful AI computers says it will make some of its products in Texas and Arizona. This would seem to be a significant move for California-based Nvidia, since it currently relies primarily on Taiwan-based TSMC to manufacture its chips. The Standard’s Shelly Brisbin says it is widely believed that Nvidia’s announcement is a response to the Trump administration’s tariff threats. Nvidia’s Monday announcement promises up to $500 billion investment in the U.S. over the next four years, with chip manufacturing in Texas beginning in the…
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and WhatsApp, is stepping up its efforts to transform citizen service delivery in India by partnering with State governments through its AI model Llama and the widely used WhatsApp messaging platform. Sandhya Devanathan, Meta’s India head, disclosed the plan, highlighting the company’s aim to make government services more accessible, integrated, and efficient through digital tools, as per a Moneycontrol report. Since January 2025, Meta has been working with the State government of Andhra Pradesh to streamline citizen interactions through a WhatsApp-based chatbot. This bot functions as a single-window access point for a wide range…
Isabelita Castilho is an Executive Strategist Advisor and a thought leader in career transition. getty Career transitions have become increasingly common. Whether prompted by industry shifts, personal growth aspirations or changing workplace dynamics such as mergers and restructures, professionals are seeking new opportunities more frequently than ever before. Fortunately, AI tools such as Claude.ai, ChatGPT and You.com have emerged as powerful allies in this process, streamlining everything from résumé customization to networking outreach. The AI Advantage In Job Searching The integration of AI into the job search process represents a significant advancement for career-minded professionals. These tools can analyze job…
Like finding the best solution in a game of chess or the board game Go, artificial intelligence could help accelerate the discovery of drugs from a decade to potentially weeks, according to Nobel laureate and Cambridge alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis.The chief executive officer and co-founder of Google DeepMind described a new era of ‘digital biology’ – and offered his insights into a future of artificial general intelligence, helping us to understand our place in the universe.Sir Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind. Picture: GoogleSir Demis was speaking at a special event in Cambridge, exploring how AI can accelerate scientific discovery, bringing “digital…
OpenAI is reportedly developing its own social media platform. The Verge, which has broken the news, describes the project as “X-like” in nature. Little is known about the new site beyond the fact that it exists. The Verge writes that the company is working on an “internal prototype” that involves a “feed” feature and may be built around the company’s image-generation capabilities. There doesn’t appear to be a name for the platform, and it’s also unclear whether it would be separate from ChatGPT or would be integrated into the company’s existing automation service. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has been quietly…
Vanessa Parley, director of research at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AII, speaks in a video about the 2025 AI Index. Image: Stanford HAI The AI industry is undergoing a complex and transitional period, according to Stanford University’s 2025 AI Index, published by the Institute for Human-Centered AI. While AI continues to transform the tech sector, public sentiment remains mixed, underscoring the rapidly shifting nature of the field. Below are key takeaways from Stanford’s latest findings on the current state of artificial intelligence — both generative and not generative. Investment in AI increases Investment in AI is growing. Private investors poured…
A visitor observes a computer bay at the PA10 data center, operated by Equinix Inc., in Paris, France, on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIn some advanced economies, electricity infrastructure and cost of utilities are undergoing structural changes because of artificial intelligence-driven demand for data centers.In the process, U.S consumers could be paying higher utility bills because of the sector shifting costs to consumers, warned a latest paper by the Harvard Electricity Law Initiative.Meanwhile in the U.K, residents may experience higher wholesale prices in light of a proposed reform to the electricity market that would favor data…